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Date & Time

Wednesday, 9 November - Wednesday, 9 November 2022
12:30 pm - 1:00 pm AEDT

OL EP103 | Melissa Monteiro | Migrant communities in Australia

On Liberty started at the onset of the pandemic, as lockdowns and shutdowns took us online.

This weekly live-stream, hosted by Salvatore Babones, hosts wide-ranging discussions. The goal, to give you the opportunity to question experts in their field on topical and news worthy subjects. Join us live, on YouTube, every Wednesday at 12.30pm AEST.

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On the show this week, guest host Glenn Fahey returns to discuss challenges facing new immigrants to Australiawith Melissa Monteiro, CEO of the Community Migrant Resource Centre. 

As a community practitioner, Melissa has worked to ensure peoples from worn-torn nations are able to find community and start life new, particularly those immigrants from less-developed countries who settle in Western Sydney.

In a report from 2016 from the Forum on the Settlement of Syrian and Iraqi Refugees, it showed that over 30 agencies representing government, local services, schools, religious and civil society organisations were brought together to focus on the key settlement issues that will confront this particular cohort of Syrian and Iraqi humanitarian entrants. Focusing on areas such as education, employment training, health and short- and long-term housing. It takes an incredible amount of community resources manpower to set up resettlements for newly arriving migrants.

Join us on YouTube at 12.30 pm Wednesday 9 November. As we hear from one of Sydney’s leading immigration advocates and ask her the questions, are we seeing a greater influx of migrants then previously before? What is the most efficient and effective way to resettle humanitarian migrant entrants? What resources are available for those seeking asylum in Australia? Are local communities having to pick the slack for Government failures on immigration?